Mel’s Recommendation:

Book: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondo

* Yes, Mel read a book about being a slob.  The book claims that if you follow the method outlined in this book, you will NEVER be a slob again. Ask me for an update in a year, folks.

* Despite the subject matter, I found this book to be very entertaining. The author does anthropomorphize her belongings and her house, but I found it to be charming as well as kooky.

* Essentially, it’s based on discarding everything that doesn’t ‘spark joy’.

* Check out YouTube for a lot of videos of people trying this method out on camera.

* While I didn’t film the horror of my clothes closet, I found my heap of clothes extremely alarming and actually was able to gather together 5 big garbage bags of clothes to donate. This is especially amazing as I supposedly had cleaned out this closet only 6 months ago…

 

Kelly’s Recommendation:

 

Store: Sam’s Club

* Possibly the most well-known Member’s Only Bulk Buy Club.

* Get great deals on electronics and even get lunch by grazing the samples on offer! And there’s also the 4ft tall Shotgun Whiskey Decanter!

* Don’t forget the ginormous tank of Cheeseballs!

* And then there are really cool deals like Kelly’s new Pergola! (I want one! ~M)

* If you haven’t checked out Sam’s recently, you might give it another look. (I didn’t know you could now get a personal account without having a business. Cool! ~M)

I couldn’t find the Shotgun Whiskey Decanter, but I’d like this one…. It brings me JOY! ~M

 

Kelly’s Social Media Recommendation:

@Leslie_Annie: aka Leslie Brooks: She has 117K followers, but still finds the time to respond to Kelly.